"....Our lab once worked on a project, where the goal was to design a machine so small, and precise, that it could inject DNA into a single mouse egg cell, without damaging the cell. That was a challenge...."

~ I just watched this awesome forum this morning and immediately thought of my Molecular and Cellular Biologist son, Jordan, in Illinois, and how much he would really benefit from, and enjoy, this awesome talk. Intelligent and Inspirational for all.....

Page 11 shows that our friends the Everetts came to Maui to join us on our vacation. They were fairly nice, most of the time, so we had fun, but we decided later that sharing a vacation wasn't the best idea after all....since we felt some ingratitude on their part. (maybe they didn't like sharing a vacation with someone who paid for all their amenities? I don't know) We had driven them to all the famous sites around the Island and took them to Hana and the 7 sacred pools on the other side of the island and while doing this, we made stops along the way, as you see below. Here are the Everitts posing on the Maui coast. Family photo of Austin with us, Jordan must of been asleep in the car.​Here is Bernd showing off a big shark mouth that a man who was selling Hawaiian art happen to have with him.

I've always loved the Hibiscus flower!

Karen, my Mid-wife, is the one who helped me deliver my babies, Michael, Jacob, and Andrew!

On page 10, you see we are back on the Island of Maui, just in time for my 28th Birthday. You can see in our faces that we had worked out most of our problems in our marriage (Bernds ideas of living polygamy and running off with Lori ideas) and were trying to be really good to each other this week. As you may see, we both have much brighter and happier smiles on our faces now. (looking back now, I do remember Bernd still being ever so clever as to continue to talk about Polygamy to me on this trip. He would ask "OK, if you HAD to live polygamy to save your life...WHO would you ask to be your sister wife? Ect. Ect.) So, I was honest and told him that IF I HAD TO...I would pick one of my own family sisters, or a unmarried cousin, like Tammy Hatch. I loved my sisters and my cousin who was just like my sister since we spent so much time together as small children. I had no idea that Bernd was NOT about to give up on having another sexual partner in his life, and at the same time, NOT lose what family he DID have. ) Below, you see a picture of me with my big Birthday cake...in the kitchen of our Maui Banyan Condo's. (same ones we stayed in 3 weeks earlier) We again stayed in this beautiful condo, for the start of our 4th week in the Hawaiian islands. (Enlargements below)

Above, you see Bernd and I went out to a special birthday dinner, at a big fancy hotel, for a seafood buffet that was amazing! We found an LDS girl to come babysit our two boys while we went out to celebrate. Below, on the back side of page 10, we had moved to a different condo nearby....still on the Kihei South Side of Maui...but just a few miles down the coast from Maui Banyan condos. With me being pregnant, and under so much stress from our marital problems on this trip, we both were talking a lot on the phone to our good friends and mid-wife, the Everets, back in Manti. We had convinced them to come visit us and join us in our last few weeks of our Hawaii trip. They could only afford to come for a few days, but we told them that they could stay in our condo and use our car rental etc. We needed the company to help ease the tension of our stressed marriage.... and it would help us to have good friends who understood the whole "Manti Utah drama" to share time with and take our minds off all the drama. I was about 5 months preggers with Jacob and needed my mid-wife close by and we wanted to treat them to a nice vacation, considering that Glen Everitt had never been out of Utah. You'll see them in the next few pages of photos. Below, is just a few pictures of me and my boys on our newest condo veranda (deck), and also next to the gardens near this condo. ​Can you find the small gecko?(Enlargements below)

Here is another picture of Barking sounds Beach. It is a beautiful beach...especially at Sunset!Below this, is Jordan reading in the car while we drive around the Island of Kauai. (This is one of my favorite pics) Jordan was my reader...he loved to read, even if it was looking at pictures at this time.​

Above, is when we stopped off at the Fern Grotto in Kauai. Ferns everywhere! It was sooooo amazing. What a gorgeous jungle. Below, we are at the Beach in Kauai and Bernd and the boys were having so much fun burying each other in the sand. Fun times.

Jordan, not so happy to be buried.

"That's better" thinks Jordan...."Let Austin be the one under the sand." lol

More of the Big Island of Hawaii. We had taken a drive around the entire Island. On the last page I posted, one of our first stops was to the lava fields and now we are one the East side of the Island looking at Waterfalls. All afternoon, Bernd and I, had been arguing about Lori Pinckney and WHY Bernd was defending her so fiercely and WHY he was trying his hardest to get me to 'like' or 'accept' her more and become 'better friends' with her. (??) I didn't know it at the time, but they were having a love affair and wanted me to join them in a Polygamy scheme. Crazy huh? So, as you can see in this 1st photo, I am not smiling because I was under so much stress from all the arguing. Little Austin was with me in this photo of the Akaka Falls.The next day, we were back in Kona exploring the waterfront and famous Hapuna Beach. This beach was the one I used to go to, as a young 12 year old, when my family lived here for 6 months.Here, I am putting sunscreen on my two white little babies, Austin and Jordan.

Above, you see that we are now over on the 3rd island of our long vacation. We are on Kauai, Hawaii. It is a smaller island, but lush and beautiful. We had already spent one week in Maui, and spent one week on the big island, and then flew over to this small island. Here, we see Jordan and Austin playing with a coconut they found on a private, secluded beach. Looks like Austin is running around in the buff...lol. On the back of this page, below, is another pic of Jordan and Austin showing off the coconut they found.The other picture stuck in the middle of this page, is of a famous beach on the island of Kauai, called Barking Sands beach. It is huge and so beautiful. This pic is one of my favorites of the entire vacation. I was a little sad that day, as I remember, but that was because Bernd and I were still arguing. Something was fishy, but I just couldn't put my finger on it. (It was that evening.... or soon thereafter ....that I learned (from Lori over the phone) that Bernd had been calling her secretly and carrying on about how much he loved her, and she was trying to convince him that he MUST tell me... or she would. Well, she did tell me, while we were on this Island! You can read about that story in some of the other posts, that I have left here, in the past. ​ The last photo is again of Jordan and Austin on the same day they found the coconut. (enlargements below)

Me and Austin, so sad with all the arguing that day. At the waterfall in Hawaii

This sign is literally upside down. So, when you take a picture, it looks like you are right side up, hanging upside down. ☺

General update... My Uncle, Dell Hatch, recently past away. He was my dad's favorite and closest brother. Our families spent lots of our fun family vacations together. They are some of my closest cousins. Dells youngest son, Derek, is married to Heidi Hatch, the famous news reported for Channel 2 News here in the State of Utah. She and I are good friends. I will post some photos below of the funeral. The pics are of Dell and Joan's children which are the ones still alive. The blonde woman is Dells oldest daughter, Michelle, and the largest boy is his son, Cory from his first marriage. Otherwise, they only have the 3 sons left, of Joan's children, alive. Bernd and I used to go visit these relatives often when we lived in St. George. My Aunt Joan is the one with white hair. Dell was cremated. My dad, Howard, has expressed his desire to be cremated too. Recently, my co-worker Don, the Archeologist and Curator of the Museum, quit his State Park job at FISP, and so I am the only one who is running the entire large Gift Shop and Museum, mainly alone, these days. Yes, I have twice the amount of work...but I love it. I manage the whole thing! The actual manager of the whole State Park is not there very often so I get to run or make a lot of executive decisions for the entire Park and feel like I actually am running this beautiful Utah State Park most days..... along with the Maintenance Supervisor, Jim, who is so kind. Between the 3 of us, we seem to be all 3 equally managing this amazing State Park. (although I don't get the same pay as they do.....haha) However, I am getting lots of experience out of this, and am enjoying most of it, other than my feet and back are killing me after almost everyday of working so hard :)....and sometimes the manager, Kevin, is difficult to work with. We have events, school groups, celebrations, dedications etc. etc.. (Maybe one day I will run my 'own gift shop'?? ♥) We just recently finished building a large beautiful shed at home. This will hold all of our workshop or working items, while we begin building a new laundry room. I am super excited. I also just got a new awesome wood burning stove, which will go in my front room. I LOVE these things!! ​Alex, is about to graduate his Junior Year! He got all A's this semester. He is very proud of himself. We are too! He will soon go off to Especially For Youth Camp, and is VERY excited for it. It is one of the MOST fun, spiritual growing, exciting Camps in the Nation and he is such a lucky boy to go to it. ~ He is such a good young man. My dad, Gramps, is at the Hospital right now getting tests done for bleeding in his stools. I am here with him. I learned that he is OK, but that was a bit of a scare. It was just internal bleeding hemorrhoids. We are thankful it was nothing too serious. I love my dad and hope he lives a long time. ♥

On the other side of the Maui island is the town of Lahaina. It is a big tourist stop along the outer edge of the island. Long ago the sailors would land in Lahaina, Maui, for shore leave. It's been a hot little town for hundreds of years now. They have a cute train that goes through the Sugar Cane fields nearby. It is a short 20 min. ride back and forth, but it was so beautiful and scenic.We also visited the Whalers Museum at the Whalers Village nearby. Do you see my two sweet babies enjoying themselves? (Enlargements below)

On the back of this page, you see me in our condo timeshare on the Big Island of Hawaii. We had left the island of Maui and headed over to this big beautiful island, called the 'Big Island' since it is the largest of all of them. This island is my father, Howard's, most favorite. Years later I learned that it is Rudy's favorite island too. There were lots of things to see on this island. Lava flows, waterfalls, and huge cattle farms and lush green fields for miles and miles, not to mention the lush vegetation everywhere.We owned a timeshare on this island south of Kona, and spent a week here on this island during our vacation. It was so nice....other than this is where Bernd and I began to argue a bit due to the fact that when he would talk about our good family friend, and newly divorced friend, Lori Pinckney, he would defend her, talk highly of her, and I began to get upset and suspicious!The lava fields on the South side of this large island was spectacular and we were able to get very close to this hot molten volcanic mater!

We are still in Maui on this big vacation, on page 6 of the Album. Here is a picture of Bernd and Austin at the Beach next to our condo, just chillin. Then, below this, is Bernd showing us a Banana tree at the Dole farm! These small fruit farms are at the fun and beautiful Dole Pineapple Visitor Center. Austin is showing us a big bunch of papaya fruit at the same farm. The next day we did a 'day trip' to the other side, East, of the Maui Island to the famous 7 sacred pools, near the small town of Hana, Maui.

Here you see us making several stops along the island to take pictures and see the beautiful landscape and scenery along the coast.The last picture is of some of the pools at the 7 sacred pool attraction. These technically are 7 or more pools which had formed one after another down the hillside to the ocean, due to waterfalls and a river washing down the East side of the Volcano into the ocean. Many people climb the hillside to go to these individual pools and swim. This photo was taken over the bridge which drives over this big wash which forms these pools. You can see that they end up at the ocean. Very nice and fun day....but boy is the road winding and it takes 4 hours to get there and then 4 hours to get home. Poor little Jordan got bitten by tons of mosquitos too! Enlargements below....

It's Mother's Day 2016To my own Mother and to all mothers out there...I hope you have a special day with those you mother, and hope that you know HOW grateful I am for you! To my children; I know you don't think I was the best mother, but sadly you will never know the sacrifices I made in this life for you and the huge amounts of love, care, suffering, pain and stress I have chosen to endure and have been subjected to endured to protect, love, care for, teach, train, comfort, search, be an example to and finally plead to the Heavens for YOU and your success and eternal happiness ♥......and I would do it again and 10 times more....that's just me.....and that's just HOW Special you are to me!! AGAIN, I am so sorry that you have been taught to have NO feelings or respect for me, for others....and maybe have NO feelings at all?~~Today and always, I pray to God that you will take the chance to take the largest risk of all, which is... to love.Conscience ( pure love ) truly is Mother nature's better bargain!

Vacation time in Hawaii. 1995Our favorite vacation spot was Maui Island for several years in a row. We went several times to the "Maui Banyan Condos" since they were so fancy at a great price for a whole week or two. However, this time, since I was under a lot of stress over; all the gossip and crazy polygamy talk, polygamy frenzy lives of most of our friends in the small town of Manti, our marriage was suffering, it was a cold Winter and we decided that since we had the money, we would spend 6 weeks in Hawaii visiting 3 islands and just relaxing to get away from the whole Manti Winter scene. I we packed up and off to the Hawaiian Islands we went. Bernd could work over the phone so it all worked out OK. Below, you see me, Austin and Jordan enjoying a walk around the swimming pool at our condos during the first day on our vacation. We had just arrived and I am wearing a beautiful Plumeria flower lei. (Plumerias are my FAVORITE flower in the whole world. They smell AMAZING. )I've actually made many of these Plumeria leis myself when I was 12 and lived in Hawaii for 6 months with my family. I made and sold these leis for $1, for fun, at a big Hotel in Kona, on the Big Island of Hawaii. .... (close up below) ...

Above, you see that we went touring around the Island and ended up at the black sand beach in Makena. I am holding Jordan and wearing my MAUI dress. I am 4 months preggers with Jacob, so you could technically say Jacob was there with us on this family vaca.​ It was a glorious morning and I have always really liked this picture. It reminds me that I was happy and I LOVED being there with my two amazing little angels from Heaven. You also see a picture of the inside of our cute condo on the same morning we were at the pool. I will have to make a close up of this one too.

Below on the front of page 5, you see our first dinner in our Maui condo. We are eating FRESH fish which we had bought at the local market which comes from the ocean across the street! YUM. Below this, you see that we drove up to the famous Haleakala Crater! We loved that drive and went every time we visited Maui. I believe Austin really loved it too when we went with Lindsey. It could be really COLD when visiting in the month of Jan. since it was soooo high up. It would freeze up there! The vegetation all along the drive was so fantastic! Below, you see that Austin, Jordan, and I would jump out of the car from time to time along the winding road up the mountain to take some scenery shots. I LOVE the one of Austin in front of the Pineapple plant, showing us how amazing this fruit is growing. Close ups below....

On the back side of page 5, you see all of us getting a family photo of us at the top of Haleakala in the cold windy weather....burr. We were so lucky that it was a clear sunny day. Then, as we drove back down to the lush Valley floor, it got much warmer and we ended up back at the Kamaole II beach, across the street from our condo. These are some adorable pictures of my two small and precious boys. Good times for sure. ♥

I will post more pictures (and some ZOOMED ones on the last Album post) in a few days when its up and running again ☺OK, I had it fixed. ​ Be sure to go see the enlarged pics and a bit more editing on the post below last.....

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